...I am starting to focus increasingly on the impact of this activity on the people living around Etna, which is getting more and more dramatic. Many towns and villages, especially in the southeastern, eastern and northeastern sectors of Etna have repeatedly received heavy tephra fallout, and driving through these areas you are gradually invaded by a sensation of sadness, it's all black and dusty, there are incredible amounts of scoriae and ash piled up along roads, the colors of spring are suppressed, and people are reluctant to put much effort into cleaning up because too many times they had just cleaned up and a few hours later, everything was covered with a fresh layer of black pyroclastics....